Monster of the Day #3484

Updated on August 30, 2024 By Ken Begg 13 Comments

As I’m sure you folks all know, history is rife with treatments and scripts for ultimately unproduced sequels for Godzilla, King Kong, and, of course, the Universal movies. This went to a first draft script and was bandied as a follow-up to Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. It was considered as (a terrible idea) a Technicolor film (!), and would have brought together Lon Chaney Jr and Bela Lugosi in the titular roles, quite a while before Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.

There’s a wonderful series of books printing the scripts for the various Universal horrors, including unproduced drafts and scripts like this one. You can buy it on Amazon if you’d like.

Have a wonderful holiday weekend, everyone. Watch something stupid.

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  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    I want that greatest crossover of all time, "Godzilla vs. Gamera"? Maybe. What I want to see is "Chip and Dale vs Mac and Tosh".

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I've been watching the Kolchak series. Last night's episode had a joke that I remember from the first time it aired. Ron Updike explains that some animals escaped, "including two large apes, a pair of adult African gibbons, as well as a Malayan tiger, a civet cat, and a piecost."

  • KeithB

    We had two laptops that we had to name. So we wanted "pair" names, i.e., Fred and Ethel, Chip and Dale…
    Someone suggested the Warner Bros chipmunks, so I looked up the names on the fledgling internet – pre google! Mac and Tosh were perfect names for our PowerPC powerbooks!

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    no I won't ask, you can't make me ;-)

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Gophers my dear fellow and I thank you.

    I always thought that was very clever of WB making them so polite to contrast them with those little Disney devilish rodents tormenting poor Donald.

  • Eric Hinkle

    What's a piecost?

    More relevantly, what is the title of the book Ken mentions about the scripts for the made and unmade Universal horror films?

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Eighty-nine cents!! ROFLOL

  • Gamera977

    1974 price!

  • Eric Hinkle

    I was going to say myself, who sells a whole pie for 89 cents these days?

  • Beckoning Chasm

    To be fair, it was Ron's joke, not mine. By the way, Jack Grinnage, who played Ron, is the only cast member still with us.

  • Gamera977

    It was nice to see Ron get a joke over on Carl considering how cruel Kolchak was to Updike sometimes. I remember the episode where Karl is talking to the taxidermy expert and buys a small stuffed mouse just to be polite and then hides it on Ron's desk.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Yeah, that was about four episodes later. That was the one with Eric Estrada.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Well, Vinegar Syndrome's sale has been a bust–except that last night they had some copies of "Uninvited." (The cat one.) Too exhausted to snare one, I sure hope Ken bought all those so he can dole them out to his supporters. (IE, me.)

    Vinegar Syndrome's slogan should be "If it was made in the Philippines, we've got it!" though that's both inaccurate and unfair. Still, if the label fits…